public marks

PUBLIC MARKS with tags design & presentation

November 2006

Travel Photos - The Great Mirror

by jlesage
"a large and sprawling collection of photographs of cultural or humanized landscapes. The images are arranged geographically and are narratively sequenced and captioned to reflect the interests of a geographer."

What Can We Do With Flickr? on Flickr - Photo Sharing!

by jlesage
how to create hotspots with popup notes on Flickr. Very useful for image analysis and assignment requiring students to comment on social aspects or formal aspects of image; or to formally critique them.

Fixings Shadows - Still Photography

by jlesage
work of individual photographers and photographs of historical and ethnographic interest and value, including a section on found photos

Design Observer: writings about design & culture

by jlesage & 1 other
very well written blog; as I have commented before, knowing about space and place is crucial for thoughtful mediamakers

Владимир Гвоздев и gvozdariki

by jlesage & 1 other
check out witty animations from a Russian animator, simple, elegant

The Getty

by jlesage
museum site has many important photography exhibits, some with audio commentary

The Mirror Project: Adventures in Reflective Surfaces

by jlesage & 4 others
collection of images from people who photographed themselves in reflective surfaces; since this is a favorite tactics of lovers of light, many images are well composed and intriguing

PDNOnline - Legends Online Archive

by jlesage
interactive galleries of work of major photographers

October 2006

Media Chops

by jlesage
the techniques and aesthetics of media making, including animation; wonderfully designed site

The Propaganda Remix Project

by jlesage & 2 others
old WW2 posters with contemporary messages; very well thought out designwise; print out for your office door

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by jlesage
artist and teacher's web site; under "digital storytelling" are wonderful quicktime movies, often from South America or in Latino USA, with subtitles; an exemplar of documentaries on the Internet

Imaginary Museum Projects - Tjebbe van Tijen

by jlesage & 1 other
innovative uses of image and text in a wide range of projects, many cultural and historical, to create an uniquely online museum-like experience

June 2006

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March 2006

When and how to use internet image formats

by urbanfoto & 5 others
What is this guide for? To teach you how to use the correct image formats for the correct situation. I am personally fed up of seeing people use gif for photos, jpeg for Windows screencaps, and other totally inappropriate image format uses. So I made this

February 2006

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